USGS-NAWQA: SPARROW (website)
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Title
| SPARROW, SPAtially Referenced Regression on Watershed Attributes (website) |
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Author
| Preston, S.D., and Alexander, R.B. |
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Abstract/Summary Statement
| SPARROW, SPAtially Referenced Regression on Watershed Attributes, is a modeling tool for the regional interpretation of water-quality monitoring data. The model relates in-stream water-quality measurements to spatially referenced characteristics of watersheds, including contaminant sources and factors influencing terrestrial and aquatic transport. SPARROW empirically estimates the origin and fate of contaminants in river networks and quantifies uncertainties in model predictions. This record provides information about the website. A USGS fact sheet about SPARROW modeling is available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2009/3019/pdf/fs_2009_3019.pdf |
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Table of Contents
| The website is organized into three sections: Recent Activities Applications Select Model Input Data |
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Citation
| US Geological Survey, SPARROW Surface Water-Quality Modeling. November 2, 2011, last accessed April 26, 2012 at http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/sparrow/ |
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Method Source
| USGS-NAWQA |
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Source Organization Country
| USA |
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Publication Year
| 2012 |
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Special Notes
| There is a SPARROW feature collection of articles in the Journal of the American Water Resources Association available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jawr.2011.47.issue-5/issuetoc |
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Item Type
| Website |
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Publication Source Type
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Government Agency (Federal, USA) |
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Purpose
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Data analysis |
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Design or Data Analysis Objectives
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Interpolate concentrations Loads & fluxes Relationships & correlations Revisit Spatial trends Temporal trends |
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Complexity
| High |
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Media Emphasized
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Surface Water |
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Special Topics
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